Reply #99: I grew up ..

[sendero]

... in a poor family going to school with mostly "rich" kids. It affected my outlook on everything and it is the main reason I am a "Democrat", whatever that means any more.

I'm not poor any more because when I was young I decided I was not going to live that way. And I resent the attitude that some have about the poor, that they are lazy or whatever, because it is only the case sometimes, probably not even most of the time. Certainly no more often than the entitlement attitude the rich kids carried around.

I started noticing 15 years ago or so that the deck is stacked against the poor more and more and more in this country. If you are poor, you pay more for banking, loans, dang near everything. The "system", in the name of risk amelioration, has stuck it to the poor so thoroughly I wonder if I could have crawled out of that state if everything was that way back in the 70s.

We are reaching the endpoint of this system. The monied interests have pretty much killed the golden goose. They seem to think they can live without the poor and middle classes, that they can sell their crap in China and India. They are in for a rude awakening, the governments of China and India are going to take care of their people much more carefully than our government has us.